Improving Kent's electric vehicle infrastructure

We're working with Kent's district and parish councils and private sector partners to:

• improve the electric charging network across the county
• drive the adoption of electric vehicles by residents, businesses and public transport providers.

Installing more chargers around Kent

Working with district councils

We're leading a project with Connected Kerb and 7 district councils. Our goal is to place over 600 public chargers points around Kent.

We are focused on off-street charging hubs, with chargers grouped together in car parks, making them easy for people to find.

Updates on our charging rollout from Connected Kerb.

Working with parish councils

To install chargers in smaller communities we are working with:

• parish councils
• town councils
• village halls
• community hubs.

We have installed chargers at 25 locations to date and are in the process of adding another 8 across the county.

The Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund (LEVI)

We intend to work with private sector partners to deliver up to 10,000 on-street EV chargers across Kent by 2035. This project will deliver reliable and fair charging if you don't have access to off-street parking. Installations are expected to begin in 2025.

Supporting public transport

Effective public transport contributes to our climate goals by removing cars from the road. But to go further, we're working with partners to lead the shift away from fossil fuels, and toward cleaner vehicles.

For taxis and private-hire vehicles, we are installing 24 rapid charger sockets. They are spread across 6 districts.

We're also working with bus service providers to increase the number of electric buses on the road. Our projects have seen trials for an:

• 'opportunity charged' electric bus in Greenhithe, Bluewater and Dartford
• overnight-charged electric bus trial servicing Canterbury Park and Ride and some Maidstone routes
• award winning electric minibus pilot in our Kent Karrier service.